Mulan is one of my favorite Disney movies so I looked forward to this retelling. Be forewarned The Night Ends with Fire is not the feel good version. The basics of the plot are similar. The details are much grittier and more misogynistic. This time period allows women nothing. Meilin is to be married off […]
I chose the Mercy Thompson series for the Read-along in 2020 and it was an amazing reread for me. With complex plots and mysteries, along with many great characters it was helpful to read from the beginning, all the books close together rather than a year apart. In 2021, we had a book in the […]
I’m a big fan of this author’s military / political space opera with the Lost Fleet. In Our Stars has some of that feel but is more in the Science Fiction Romance genre which felt weird. The romance was not typical to a romance novel. Other aspects were more similar with politics, aliens, and inexplicable […]
I really enjoyed listening to this police procedural but much more. Anna is a police detective of fairly high rank. When murders which resemble her father’s crimes of 20 years ago, she starts remembering that time. We follow her point of view with the present of wanting to figure out the crime, and the past […]
Now the Library trilogy continues. In the first book, Livira and Evar meet and get to know each other. They find that although their species are at war, they can love each other. They are separated at the end, Livira amd Malar end up as assistants and goes back in time to help Evar and […]
I expected a bit more of a technical scifi aspect. There wasn’t too much on the technology. I’m With Her is much more a psychological thriller. One young woman, Elizabeth, is confidant and used to having her way because of her beauty. Mary is by no means ugly but lacks confidence and is more interested […]
I was excited to be back in the world of the Soulwood series. As with most urban fantasy, I would definitely read these in order. I have read the Jane Yellowrock series which I think also helps one to understand more of the world and characters. Plus it is just great reading. The Soulwood […]
The Shadow Age is a new series with a complex magic system. The setting is a smaller university town just east of Tucson, Arizona. It seems a bit odd the main character is Petra Grady which has a Scandinavian feel, while it is actually Greek and Irish origins. Anyway, Petra is a likely urban fantasy […]
The Olympian Affair is the second book in the Cinder Spires series. It is eight years since we got The Aeronaut’s Windlass so I reread it in September to prepare for this release. I did the reread on audio, where my initial read was in paperback. Based on the reread, I decided to read the […]
I was thrilled to continue with the Midsolar Murders. The characters and world had a good foundation laid in the first book Station Eternity which is where Mallory and Xan and several aliens live. The station itself is sentient, bonded now with Mrs. Brown. Mrs. Brown decides to take a trip and leaves Mallory to […]